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HOWARD ESLIE HOLLAR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 6, 1948 – March 6, 1968
Service recordHoward Eslie Hollar, of Charlottesville, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 22
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- February 6, 1948
- Home of record
- Charlottesville, Virginia (Charlottesville (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
140 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1968; 70 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 43E, Line 22
- GLEN THOMAS HOBBSSergeant · March 6, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN HORVATHPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
- SANDRA HOSEYPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
- GEORGE HOWARD HUDSONLance Corporal · March 6, 1968
From Charlottesville
- GRANDVILLE R JONES JRPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- JOHN DEVON TYLERSergeant · July 21, 1966
- ERSKINE BUFORD WILDEPrivate First Class · July 27, 1966
- HARVEY MULHAUSERCaptain · January 31, 1967
- DOUGLAS DELANO WALLACEPrivate First Class · April 29, 1967
- ROBERT EDWARD MARSHALLWarrant Officer · November 25, 1968
- JAMES MARION KARDOSPrivate First Class · September 4, 1969
- CHARLES KING BUTLERFirst Lieutenant · December 28, 1969
- ROBERT HOYT RUGGLESPrivate First Class · January 21, 1970
- RICHARD THOMAS CARTERSpecialist Four · January 23, 1970
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.